"Yes, it has upset her dreadfully."
"Is she afraid of him?"
"Yes, pathetically afraid. But there is also something else she fears."
"I suppose she is thinking of her husband and her child?"
"Yes, poor soul! How I wish we could help her!"
"It is not easy to help the children of destiny."
"Never until now have I realised what a dreadful life it is these people lead. She is suffering terribly. Do you know of anybody who understands the stars?"
"The stars!"
"Yes, she says she wants to know what the stars are doing. It is ridiculous superstition, of course, and I told her so. But she shook her head in the oddest way, and she looked so tragic and unhappy that she nearly made me cry."
"Isn't there an astrologer in Bond Street? But it's a hundred to one he's a charlatan."